Abortion clinic could close in March

Ruling expected on injunction

1:01 AM,
Jan. 26, 2013

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A federal judge soon could rule on whether to block a law threatening to close Mississippi's sole abortion clinic after the agency filed its latest court document Friday.

In it, the Jackson Women's Health Organization argued it has proved its inability to comply with a new state law and the court should do what the clinic had originally asked last year: prevent enforcement of the law. It also alleges the state presented a weak opposition to the clinic's latest request for a preliminary injunction, filed on Nov. 28.

"Defendants offer no evidence and no argument," the motion states, "that ...